Welcome to My Active Learning Portfolio!


Active Learning is process that "involves students in doing things and thinking about the things they are doing" (Bonwell & Eison, 1991). Active learning requires students to engage in activities such as problem solving, discussion, writing, role playing, etc. to promote the analysis, synthesis and evaluation of classroom content. This site contains

examples of active learning including:

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  • Active Learning Investigation: A sample lesson plan that incorporates active learning

  • Grow Beasts: An investigation that promotes student understanding of measurement, prediction, working with data, and plotting points

  • Mathematizing: An example of using mathematics to understand aspects of the world

  • Additional resources: Articles and other active learning tools

Please feel free to wander about the site!

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